Word: monitoring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suit filed last week gave a glimpse of IBM's elaborate security apparatus. The company spends more than $50 million annually to guard its internal secrets. Hundreds of in-house detectives monitor employees suspected of being security risks, keep confidential information out of the hands of those who do not need it and even prowl around offices at night to make sure that desks are locked...
...hopes so. Agency Commissioner Arthur Hull Hayes has already indicated that he will more closely monitor promotional statements made in press kits and at scientific conferences, especially for the huge heart and arthritis markets, where the rewards for overstatement are most tempting. In addition, the agency has issued guidelines to control the growing practice of advertising drugs before they are approved. Henceforth, such ads may not make any claims about the safety or efficacy of a product, and if a drug is named, the ad cannot detail its uses. Ciba-Geigy met these requirements by not naming the antidepressant drug...
...main race voters should monitor, however, is still that for governor. Former Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, while clearly the liberal in the primary contest, stayed annoyingly vague for the first nine months of the campaign, trading insults and slurs with his opponent, rather than staking out clear positions on the issues. For the problems of crime, unemployment, and local aid, he has offered nebulous formulas without specific solutions. Now that the bitter grudge match between Dukakis and King is over, we hope that the next seven weeks will bring a respectable debate between the former governor and Sears...
...dial lines available for outgoing calls and then eliminating them, the Kremlin has now made it impossible for anyone to call from outside the country without going through an operator. The move has produced delays of 24 hours or more, and made it much easier for the authorities to monitor all communications...
...several members of an unauthorized "peace group" that was founded in June to press for better relations with the U.S. And last week Yelena Bonner, the wife of dissident Physicist Andrei Sakharov, announced that "cruel persecution" had finally destroyed the Moscow Helsinki Watch Group, an organization set up to monitor the Soviet Union's compliance with the human rights provisions of the Helsinki Final Act signed by 35 nations...